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I’m blogging a second time about Alice Murno. I just finished a long and fascinating article in the New Yorker of Jan. 6, 2025 about her. Rachel Aviv does a deep dive into how the sexual abuse of her daughter, Andrea, affected her life and writings. It was fascinating to read this while reading her […]
Former international banker and award-winning thriller author Carl Vonderau recounts a story in Medellin, Colombia about the “long way.”
Former international banker and award-winning thriller author Carl Vonderau talks about an experience with a prison in Medellin, Colombia (video.)
The fires happening in LA are unbelievable. The property decimated has a larger area than Manhattan, and the fire is still not contained. One expert estimated that it would take more than 20K firetrucks just to stop the blazes in all the houses. More Santa Ana winds are projected to spread embers into other areas […]
The Swiss banks are famous for being neutral in World War II. So neutral that the Nazis never invaded Switzerland. But some banks like Credit Suisse had cozy arrangements with Germany. Credit Suisse was bought buy UBS, which will soon pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the US Justice Department because of Credit Suisse’s […]
An interesting piece in the NYT Times of Jan. 12, 2025 described Samuele Landi, a wealthy Italian businessman, who chose to live on a barge to avoid being sent to prison. In 2006 Italian authorities discovered millions of euros had been siphoned from his company, Eutalia. The money had been sent to international tax shelters […]
Do you know what pig butcherers are? These are people who befriend others on websites, gain their trust, and scam them out of their savings. In effect they fatten “pigs” by establishing relationships, and then butcher them by stealing everything they have. Often the butcherers pretend to be in love with their victims. Or they […]
It’s hard to believe how the most rational people can be pulled into a scam. An article in The New Yorker in 2006 shows that this is not true. John Worley was a decorated Vietnam veteran, an ordained minister, and a Christian psychotherapist. He had even developed a psychological profiling tool to help determine his […]
It wasn’t that I was fascinated with serial killers. Before writing MURDERABILIA, my previous thrillers had more to do with the financial services industry and the countries I know like Colombia, Canada, and Algeria. But then I started playing the What If game and combining ideas. Things got weird fast. It all started with a […]